If you’ve noticed a helmet on a light pole around DC lately, know that it has been placed there to honor DC’s fallen firefighters. A plaque, at street level, will also tell each firefighter’s story. This is the Memorial Helmet Project.Â
Read MoreNewsBash, an annual event (rebranded in 2015) of Washington’s female news anchors, returned for its 14th celebration — a parade of pink for purpose — raising funds and awareness for breast cancer at the Four Seasons this month.Â
Read MoreIt has just been announced that pandas are returning to DC!
Qing Bao and Bao Li, both two years old, are pandas born at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda (CCRCGP) in Sichuan who will travel to the Smithsonian National Zoo by the end of the year.Â
Read MoreEarthday.org’s Climate Leadership Gala celebrated leaders’ efforts to combat climate change. Denis Hayes, organizer of the very first Earth Day in 1970, spoke at the Gala along with special guest, Sarah, Duchess of York, a longstanding global champion for the environment.
Read MoreDC’s new Pure Sweat + Float Studio is now open! This is a calming wellness studio that provides infrared saunas and float therapy private cabins.
Read MoreThe 40th Helen Hayes Awards recognized work from 151 eligible productions presented in the 2023 calendar year, with awards given in 41 categories.
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Supporters came together at the Waldorf Astoria on Armed Forces Day for the 10th Luke’s Wings Heroes Gala, a night dedicated to celebrating its mission of providing complimentary flights to wounded, ill, and injured service members, Veterans, first responders, and their families during recovery and rehabilitation. The non-profit raised over $500,000 for its cause.
Read MoreDirector Psalmayene 24 calls Folger’s Metamorphoses a “mythic choreo-drama” that has within it “almost everything that makes us human.” And indeed it is a spellbinding potpourri of the constantly evolving state of the world.Â
Read MoreMore than $700,000 was raised at the Washington Tennis & Education fundraiser to benefit the work of the organization, which provides children and youth from Wards 7 & 8 a safe and trusting environment as well as tennis and education programs.
Read MoreThe Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association celebrated its 85th anniversary with a rare event in DC — a general aviation flyover!
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